Land Cover 2017 is the companion dataset to Impervious Surfaces 2017, and classifies land cover into five surface types:• Grass (open space without trees and shrubs) (Class Name = 1)• Scrub/shrub (rough grass, rushes, low profile vegetation often around wetlands) (Class Name = 4)• Sand/Gravel/Bare Earth (Class Name = 5)• High vegetation (trees and shrubs) (Class Name = 6)• Water (Class Name = 7)Image processing was conducted by Lynker Analytics using machine learning techniques on Auckland Council’s most recent orthophotography—7.5 cm pixel resolution (2017) covering all the region’s urban settlements and beyond; and 50 cm pixel resolution (2010-2012) covering the region’s remaining, predominantly rural areas—to produce two separate (urban and rural) land cover datasets.A copy of the full background report can be obtained from the Regional Planning team in Auckland Council’s Healthy Waters department.
